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Use the Search menu to limit your search to files in a specific location, such as your address book or
Web pages, or to display only a specific type of file in your results list. The View menu lets you sort
the items in your results list according to name, relevance, or the date the file was last modified.
You can also access Desktop Search by clicking Computer > More Applications > System > Search.
9.2 Search Tips
9.3 Performing a Property Search
By default, the Beagle search tool looks for search terms in the text of documents and in their
metadata. To search for a word in a particular property, use property:query. For example,
author:john searches for files that have "john" listed in the Author property.
Table 9-1
Keyword
album
artist
author
creator
email
extension or ext
genre
imagecomment
imagemodel
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You can use both uppercase and lowercase letters in search terms. Searches are not case-
sensitive by default.
To perform a case-sensitive search, put double quotation marks (") around the word you want
to match exactly. For example, if you use "APPLE" in a search, apple will be ignored.
To search for optional terms, use OR (for example, apples OR oranges).
IMPORTANT: The OR is case-sensitive when used to indicate optional search terms.
To exclude search terms, use a minus sign (-) in front of the term you want to exclude (for
example, apples -oranges will find results containing apples but not oranges).
To search for an exact phrase or word, put quotation marks (") around the phrase or word.
Common words such as "a," "the," and "is" are ignored.
The base form of a search term is used when searching (for example, a search for "driving" will
match "drive," "drives," and "driven").
Supported Property Keywords
Applies to
Music files
Music file
Document
Document
Address book
File
Music file
Image file
JPEG image
Property
Name of album
Name of artist
Author of the document (same as creator)
Creator of the document, mapped to dc:creator (for
example, creator of PDF files)
E-mail address
File extension (for example, extension:jpeg or ext:mp3).
Use extension: or ext: to search in files with no extension.
Genre of music
Comments and descriptions found in images that have an
IPTC caption or Exif comment
Model of camera (for example, EOS2D)
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